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ANIMAL LIFE UNDER WATER.
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Paperback, 298 p., 16 x 25. ISBN 9782503508382. For some 40 years, A.G. Rigg has been defining the field of later Anglo-Latin scholarship, a task culminating in his History of Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422. 'Anglo-Latin and its Heritage' is a collection of thirteen essays by his colleagues and students, past and present, which pays tribute to him both by exploring the field he has defined, and by making forays into its antecedents and descendants. The first section, Roots and Debts, includes essays on the migration of classical and late antique motifs and patterns of thought into early medieval Latin, and concludes with an essay which shows how a 12th-century writer reached back into that earlier period for stylistic models. The central section of the book, Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422, concentrates on Anglo-Latin writers of the period most studied by Rigg himself, and the seven essays in this section include analyses of poetic style and borrowing discussions of patterns of reading and essays which read Anglo-Latin works through their specific historical and cultural contexts. Two of the essays are elegant translations of significant Anglo-Latin poetic works. The final section of the book, Influence and Survival, offers three essays which consider Anglo-Latin literature in the late medieval and post-medieval world, from an edition of a Latin source for a late Middle English saint's life through an account of the migration of Latin texts into the royal libraries of Henry VIII to the concluding essay, which explores a mechanical means of producing perfect Latin hexameter. A complete bibliography of Rigg's works closes the volume. The chronological and methodological range of the essays in this collection is offered as a fitting tribute to one of Anglo-Latin's most learned and indefatigable scholars. Languages : English, Latin.
14 pages. Plus black and white plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. A narrative replete with natural history facts from Major Hingston, a member of the ill fated 1924 British Everest Expedition looks specifically at animal life in Tibet at various altitudes. Interesting examination of animal coping strategies: hibernation, burrowing, camouflage capabilities. Features the residents of the highest altitudes: the minute Attid spiders at 22,000 feet; the highest plant seen was a small arenaria (A. musciformis) at 20,000 feet; at Camp III, 21,000 feet, Hingston saw choughs and a jungle crow, both of which seem to have followed up the camp. And a rose-finch which he saw there seemed to have been migrating across the range. Another visitor was a humble-bee. Traces of fox and hare were seen at 21,000 and they were both seen above 20,000 feet. The camp at 20,000 feet on the Kharta glacier was daily visited by lammergeier, raven, red-billed chough, alpine chough, and black-eared kite. Droppings of burrhel were seen at 20,000, and the sheep themselves were fairly common between 17,000 feet and 19,000 feet. A pika of a new species (Ochotona wollastoni) was found from 15,000 feet to 20,000 feet. An unseen mouse entered the tents and ate food at 20,000 feet. At 19,000 feet in the Kharta Valley dwarf blue meconopsis, many saxifrages and curious sasusureas, large composites packed with cotton-wool, were found. At 18,000 feet were the smallest rhododendrons (R. Setosum and R. Zepidotum), a dwarf blue hairy delphinium (D. brunnoneanum) in the Kharta Valley; and Wollaston also saw there at this altitude the very handsome red-breasted rose-finch. And Hingston found immature forms of a new genus of grasshopper on the desolate moraines at 18,000 feet, and at the same height was a Guldenstadt’s redstart. At 17,000 feet life forms multiplied substantially.
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Bruxelles, Artis, 1956; in-folio, environ 130 pp. chacun, reliures d'éditeur en toile. Images collées dans le texte. Bon état.
Gebrocheerd, originele uitgeversomslag, 18x26cm, 165 p., 48 fig., 39 tab. Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Natuurwetenschappen, tweede reeks, n?° 129.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. [xiii], 144 p., b/w ills. Onomastics of Ankara City's districts, their origin of names and stories. Ankara'nin tarihî semt isimleri ve öyküleri. Ills. by Fikret Ünsal.